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The programmer who turns complex languages into elegant symphonies. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wrote my compiler in Haskell because it seemed that it’d be much less hassle compared to do it in a object oriented or procedual language.

That is not a feeling I'd associate with Haskell!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But it definitely was, oh and when you compared the results, I don't remember the exact number anymore but compared to especially the solutions in Java and C++ the haskell ones used around 1/10 of the lines of code to solve this particular problem. Because in the end this problem really has a recursive nature.